Speaker 1: Hell.
Speaker 2: Everyone, Welcome to the Mason Cox Show. Yes, this is
Speaker 2: the podcast with your host Mason Cox. Now I've got
Speaker 2: our producer in front of me, of Braden Cox.
Speaker 3: Welcome.
Speaker 2: It is so good to finally start this passion project
Speaker 2: we've been talking about for years.
Speaker 4: So good.
Speaker 1: I've been bugging you to do this for I reckon
Speaker 1: three years and we've known each other. We're talking about
Speaker 1: it just before. We've known each other for like seven
Speaker 1: eight years. That blows my mind because in my head,
Speaker 1: I'm still like twenty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're still twenty five, twenty you know, we're still
Speaker 2: really living the young, youthful life. We did meet seven
Speaker 2: years ago, Collingwood. You were in the media team and
Speaker 2: I got somewhat vibe together. We've got the same last name.
Speaker 2: Now it's still a little bit differently. You've probably had
Speaker 2: a bit more of a rough upbringing. I'd say, with
Speaker 2: the spelling of your last name.
Speaker 1: Than yours an absolute cop out. You've got the g
Speaker 1: rated version. My dad says that ours is spelled correctly.
Speaker 4: It's legit. If you're going to have it, you may
Speaker 4: as well do it right.
Speaker 3: It's rough man.
Speaker 2: I can imagine you would have been buoyed as a kid,
Speaker 2: just as I was with the last name like that
Speaker 2: going through the teenage years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was fat and I had buck teeth and
Speaker 1: long curly hair, so I had way more to worry
Speaker 1: about than my last name.
Speaker 4: But I don't know about you. I embraced it towards
Speaker 4: the end.
Speaker 1: Like every time a teacher we'd have like a substitute
Speaker 1: teacher or something, I'd always yell out across the class.
Speaker 4: It's felt like a bag of dicks.
Speaker 1: You would say that, yeah, But like I don't think
Speaker 1: they cared because it would break the ice for them
Speaker 1: because they would always say Braden and then just like pause.
Speaker 4: So if you make a joke about.
Speaker 3: It, it's not going to change. It just becomes part
Speaker 3: of your last.
Speaker 1: Time you get any in particular, I always got what
Speaker 1: is your middle name?
Speaker 4: Sucks?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Mine was like Harry.
Speaker 2: You should name your kid Harry or tiny or something
Speaker 2: like that. That was that was That was a bit of
Speaker 2: like I said, the teenage years, where everyone just kind
Speaker 2: of gave you crap for your last name. Because we're
Speaker 2: also immature. You couldn't really get away from it. But
Speaker 2: like you said, you kind of you grow to love it.
Speaker 2: It's part of you. It's something you can't change. It's
Speaker 2: like being seven feet tall and just rolling around in
Speaker 2: a van you don't fit in. But this is the
Speaker 2: Mason Cox Show and it's rolling out of the rolling.
Speaker 3: Bus slash van.
Speaker 2: It's an amazing project that you've been able to make yourself.
Speaker 2: You've got it out this whole sprinter van. You've made
Speaker 2: it into a podcast studio and let's say, now everyone
Speaker 2: can't really see the full extent of this, but it's
Speaker 2: a pretty amazing setup. You've done a lot of work
Speaker 2: on this thing for the last few years. If it's
Speaker 2: a bit of a COVID project, you would say, tell
Speaker 2: us a little bit about exactly what you've been able
Speaker 2: to create here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, thank you.
Speaker 1: It did take a lot of time and a scary
Speaker 1: amount of money going into like COVID times, because I
Speaker 1: don't know, I kind of just I had the concept
Speaker 1: because yeah, so I did the Jock and Joanno podcast
Speaker 1: with Pendles. You might have heard of him plays footy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but yeah, so I did.
Speaker 1: That and it was just a real pain in the
Speaker 1: ass to get players and like people together, especially if
Speaker 1: you started to think about like a set in stone
Speaker 1: studio at a certain address and trying to get them
Speaker 1: to go to that. So like the idea was born
Speaker 1: revolving around athletes going to them, and then I kind
Speaker 1: of just parked it for a bit, pun intended, and
Speaker 1: then New Year's like twenty nineteen, I took out like
Speaker 1: all my money and bought this van and everything to
Speaker 1: build it out, and then yeah, started building it, and
Speaker 1: then what three months later, the world went to shar
Speaker 1: So I had no job, no money and just a
Speaker 1: van and like all this stuff. But yeah, launched at
Speaker 1: the start of twenty twenty one, which is also just
Speaker 1: a real dumpster fire of a year. Yeah, twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two started and I was lucky enough to get a
Speaker 1: couple of like regular clients on board, and yeah, it's
Speaker 1: kind of taken off from there. I've only really had
Speaker 1: famous people in the in the van, so well.
Speaker 2: You've really taken a step down with me. But it
Speaker 2: is a cool concept, you know. I guess like your
Speaker 2: entrepreneurial spirit of going into a pandemic and then saying
Speaker 2: stuff it, I'm going to become my own employer, which
Speaker 2: is kind of crazy within itself, and I'm sure, like
Speaker 2: you said, quite daunting at times, but you've been able
Speaker 2: to create this thing, which is very much I think
Speaker 2: in the beginning stages there's going to be some amazing
Speaker 2: things I think going forward with you with starting your
Speaker 2: own kind of company and production company and everything else.
Speaker 2: And this is like an amazing kind of story I
Speaker 2: think of, like, oh yeah, just like bottom Van had
Speaker 2: this great idea of having like a mobile podcast studio,
Speaker 2: and I'm just winging it while I'm just making it,
Speaker 2: making it my own, making it how unique it is
Speaker 2: is like kind of selling it as this kind of
Speaker 2: unique project different from anything else you could possibly imagine.
Speaker 2: And it's cool because you can just rock up anywhere
Speaker 2: in someone's house. See outside the front of there is
Speaker 2: smash out a podcast, you go home. They have minimal
Speaker 2: effort and it's like on you, it is. I'm sure
Speaker 2: it can be caught nervous to be able to have
Speaker 2: to have everything kind of fall back on you as
Speaker 2: a as a person that runs their own company. But
Speaker 2: it's a cool idea, man, I love it. I've always
Speaker 2: been interested in what you're doing. You've always done unique
Speaker 2: stuff from the different gifts and stuff you've done on
Speaker 2: social media, role in sports, check them out they're hilarious
Speaker 2: the stuff that I do with it. He s does
Speaker 2: all kinds of different clips from AFL to just things
Speaker 2: around the world, and you're hilarious and you don't get
Speaker 2: enough credit. You're kind of the guy behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: It sucks because I know you're such a funny guy
Speaker 2: and you're such a like charismatic person. It's good to
Speaker 2: have your face on camera. I know it doesn't happen
Speaker 2: very often Braden, but he's a good looking rooster.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was saying pre podcast that I was very, very,
Speaker 1: very very attractive. There was a lot of varies in there,
Speaker 1: but I appreciate it, and yeah, I hope it is
Speaker 1: a good story. I kind of it was weird because
Speaker 1: I've been in footy and media for like ten years
Speaker 1: and I don't know, I don't know if it just
Speaker 1: comes with age, but you get to a point I
Speaker 1: was just like bored of doing the same thing over
Speaker 1: and over. And I've always been a really like career
Speaker 1: driven person and I've always wanted like and I've always
Speaker 1: had that creative side, so like I've always wanted to
Speaker 1: do this, and then it I don't know, I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people had the exact same thing through COVID,
Speaker 1: where it was like you see a lot of people
Speaker 1: going the opposite direction to what everyone expected. Everyone thought
Speaker 1: that everyone would like try to hold onto their jobs
Speaker 1: and security and all of that.
Speaker 4: But it's really gone the other way.
Speaker 1: I feel like everyone's gone, like like life is short
Speaker 1: while am I wasting it in this shithole job that
Speaker 1: I'm working And no offense to all of the employers
Speaker 1: that employed me over the time, but yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: what do I love?
Speaker 4: Like what do I enjoy?
Speaker 1: And everyone seems to be doing that, And that's oddly enough.
Speaker 1: Sitting in the back of a v for me and
Speaker 1: creating content and having a laugh. Yeah, that's what and
Speaker 1: roland Sport you mentioned. It is just humor based content
Speaker 1: and like, I'm big on that, the lighter side of everything,
Speaker 1: like its foot is so fucking serious for oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: you know what it is. I think if everyone can
Speaker 1: just have a laugh and relax and just simmer down
Speaker 1: a bit, it's it's only good.
Speaker 2: That's what we're all about here, is all having a laugh,
Speaker 2: trying to learn new things. And the whole reason I
Speaker 2: think of creating this podcast is to tell some amazing
Speaker 2: stories like I've been fortunate enough in this grand scheme
Speaker 2: of life that I've been given this opportunity to come
Speaker 2: to a place that I knew nothing about and play
Speaker 2: sport I knew nothing about and being able to meet
Speaker 2: some amazing people on the ways, and I've got a
Speaker 2: bit of a different outlook on life because I didn't
Speaker 2: grow up here. I don't really know a ton about
Speaker 2: Australian culture at times, and some things can be a
Speaker 2: bit of a culture shock. But there's some amazing people
Speaker 2: I've met out there that have some amazing stories that
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people can learn from, and
Speaker 2: that's we're all about, I think telling those stories of
Speaker 2: those different kind of people, getting a bit of not
Speaker 2: only that, but also we're going to have a bit
Speaker 2: of a podcast within this of talking about the current
Speaker 2: topics and everything going on in the world and are
Speaker 2: kind of different thoughts and aspects on what's going on,
Speaker 2: and just to give a different light on things. I
Speaker 2: feel like maybe media sometimes can be just a bit
Speaker 2: of a straight line and it's no offense people, but
Speaker 2: I just think there's a lot of different ways you
Speaker 2: can take this and it's not a one size fits
Speaker 2: all kind of thing. So that's we're all about on
Speaker 2: this podcast. It's gonna be a great experience, man. Like
Speaker 2: you said, through COVID, a lot of people wanted to
Speaker 2: change out and see what they're passionate about in life,
Speaker 2: figure out what they really have an energy to put into.
Speaker 2: And I love the fact that you've created this fan,
Speaker 2: we've created this podcast, and we're really chasing those things
Speaker 2: that we're really passionate about.
Speaker 3: So we're really excited. Man.
Speaker 2: I'm very excited. I know you are, and we're really
Speaker 2: pumped together to get this thing off off the ground
Speaker 2: and get it started. So follow us on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok,
Speaker 2: Facebook and YouTube the top five so like, subscribe, heart, comment,
Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: It follow us around, you know, we're all in sports.
Speaker 2: Awesome what you're doing there, and there's so many other
Speaker 2: different podcasts's doing doing through the back of the span
Speaker 2: and yeah, it's exciting times to had man. The future
Speaker 2: is going to be brought.
Speaker 4: So good to get going finally for sure.
Speaker 2: Man, it's going to be hopefully a long long project.
Speaker 2: We're going to do and have some amazing experiences and
Speaker 2: be able to share some cool, cool life stories along
Speaker 2: the way.
Speaker 3: Let's do this thing. This is gonna be a blast.
Speaker 3: I have so much fun, man, let's do it.